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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: WiX Burn – tips/tricks

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 1 May 2012. WiX Burn – tips/tricks. Is a reference to this folder. In many cases this information has been gleaned from the WiX Users. Mail list. If you spot any errors or can suggest improvements please let me know. This is my outline framework that I have been using to create a burn project:. Version = 1.0.0.0. Http:/ schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi. 160;   . Http:/ schemas.microsoft.com/wix/BalExtension. Is se...

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: WiX Script for Major Upgrades

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 6 January 2009. WiX Script for Major Upgrades. On the WiX mailing list. Recently there have been several requests for information about upgrades, this post presents a very basic script that has all the elements necessary to handle a major upgrade. Simple WiX template - This example installs a file in to a directory. This is application version number, update for each release -. Simple WiX template $(var.Version).

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: LaunchConditions, FindRelatedProducts and Downgrades

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 6 January 2009. LaunchConditions, FindRelatedProducts and Downgrades. Quite a long time ago I had a problem with my WiX installs when tried to detect that a newer version was installed ( Upgrade code failing for silent installs. I thought the solution was to use a custom action to detect the newer version but I have finally realised what the problem was. A later version of [ProductName] is already installed.".

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: WiX Bootstrapper Application

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Wednesday, 3 October 2012. This code has been updated and is now available here http:/ wixextba.codeplex.com/. I have been working with the new WiX bootstrapper applications and have created my own version based heavily on the standard BA. This version has the following enhancements over the standard code:. Add welcome message to HyperlinkLicense install page. Add support for Radio buttons on the option and install pages.

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: VB6: Internal error during Pass2

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Wednesday, 20 July 2011. VB6: Internal error during Pass2. Very occasionally something will change in one of my VB projects (yes I still use VB) and it will stop compiling and display an error similar to this:. Unexpected error occurred in code generator or linker. . Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 6.00.8447. ModCommon.OBJ : error : Internal error during Pass2. 160; ExceptionInformation[ 0] = 00000000. In my day jo...

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: Silverlight 4 Tools Install Problem

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Sunday, 3 October 2010. Silverlight 4 Tools Install Problem. I have been struggling to get the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. Working on my laptop and I think I have found a solution. You install the tools and the install (“Silverlight tools.exe”) doesn’t report an errors. When you open a Silverlight 4 project Visual Studio tells you that you don’t have the tools installed. Posted by Neil Sleightholm.

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: WiX Reg File Heat Extension

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 29 June 2010. WiX Reg File Heat Extension. V2 had the tallow tool which was able to harvest a WiX. Fragment from a file exported from the registry (reg file). WiX v3’s replacement for this tool, Heat, lost this functionality. The code presented here adds this back as an extension to Heat. It also gives an example of how to write a custom heat extension. You can download v0.90 of the extension from here. I am hoping...

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: Building SilverLight 4 Applications without Visual Studio 2010

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 28 September 2010. Building SilverLight 4 Applications without Visual Studio 2010. On my build machines I prefer not to install Visual Studio and just rely on the .Net framework which includes all the tools required to run a build. Unfortunately the SilverLight 4 tools. Download the SilverLight 4 tools. Run silverlight sdk.msi on your build machine. Posted by Neil Sleightholm. 3 November 2010 at 18:40. DLL Hijackin...

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Neil Sleightholm's Blog: Burn UI Customisations

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A rarely updated random collection of things that interest me or I am working on. Tuesday, 1 May 2012. I have written a couple of WiX burn UI customisations and thought they were worth sharing. They are both based on the standard WiX burn templates and can be easily implemented as mentioned in my previous post http:/ neilsleightholm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/wix-burn-tipstricks.html. I changed this to include the following features:. Resized to match standard WiX UIs. Resized to match standard WiX UIs.